[xgm541]

If you are getting 24 hours on heavy usage you must be using a 10k mah battery because that is impossible. I know your intent of this post is probably to inform people that there might be a better option out there, but from experience, it doesnt exist.
You will not get good battery life from a smart phone, let alone one such as the TP. To the OP.. please do not exaggerate your battery life. Why do I ask this? Because if people see your post about abnormal 24 hour heavy usage battery life, it brings lots of useless topics asking "why do i only get 12?".

With my TP i have 24 hour battery life with light usage, with what I would consider heavy (texting, listening to internet radio, GPS on, browsing the web, etc), i get around 6 hours. Before I had the TP, i used to use a Tmobile sidekick. That phone has EDGE, and a 1540mah battery. The sidekick is barely able to browse the web, has crappy IMing built in, and thats about it. The power needed to run EDGE is like.. 3 times less than that used to run 3G? The sidekick lasted on a good day 16 hours on rather heavy usage.

My point is, with a data connection, gps, and all the other wonderful things the touch pro has, there is no reason why you SHOULD get 24 hour heavy usage battery life, when with another phone witha bigger battery, and EDGE, and generally a crappy phone, I got less.

I am only speaking from experience, but i am sure there are plenty of people who can back me up in saying that 24 hour heavy usage battery life is just bogus.